203: Mick Roberts – Exhortation: The Fragrance of Christ

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Welcome to good for selfie and
talks.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
Brian, thank you for joining us

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this week.
On this podcast, we select one

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taco week to help us get the
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We post a new episode of the
start of each week with a short

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intro before.
Hand to kind of set the stage

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for the talk.
You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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This week were listening to an
expectation.

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That was given by Brother
McRoberts at the Idyllwild.

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Bible School in 2022.
And brother Mick is taking a At

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the topic of the scent of
Christ, he opens his excitation

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talking about the smell that you
get from attending.

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Idlewild as a bible school, it’s
up in the mountains surrounded

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by a lot of pine trees and
without spoiling too many of the

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different examples that he uses
as he talks through his

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excitation.
What I really appreciated from

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brother Mick was The concept of
the smell of the fragrance of

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Christ that we all are supposed
to be giving off.

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You hear lots of times when
people talk about the glow that

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Moses had when he came down from
the mountain.

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And I’ve heard the example
before where people talk about

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coming down from a bible school
and having that glow about them,

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that sometimes will fade over
time as kind of the day-to-day

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grind of Life takes over.
And I appreciated, this is just

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a different way of kind of
saying something similar, but

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also a good reminder of ways
that you can keep The smell or

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the glow of a bible school going
long after you have left, the

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Bible school and I appreciated
his call to action at the end

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about making sure that we
encourage one another when we’re

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doing things that give off the
scent of Christ.

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So really enjoyed this
excitation, it was a great way

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to kick off the Bible school and
listen to it and I hope you find

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it to be just encouraging for
the start of any week.

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Doesn’t have to be just a week
bible school.

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So, With that.
We’ll turn it over to our

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brother McRoberts for his
extrication, the fragrance of

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Christ, very good evening,
brothers and sisters.

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That’s good.
It’s really good to be here.

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At least I assume for me, it’s
really good to be here.

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I say that because I’ve never
been here before, so you would

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expect wouldn’t you that
somebody coming for the first

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time would want to check things
out?

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I want to know what Idol was all
about.

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So, I did my research.
I went online.

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That’s what we all do.
Is knit, we go Ogle.

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If you want to check something
out.

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So I went online and I found
some really interesting

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pictures.
I found some interesting video

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clips.
I saw a lot of action going on.

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So I saw that as sites of what
either wild looks like.

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I also listen to one or two of
the talks, so I had an idea of

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what either was sounded like I
even talked to a few people have

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been before who gave me a sense
of what Idlewild feels like.

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But I don’t know what Idlewild
smells like.

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Now, I’m not being flippant.
But, you know, there is

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something about the power of
smell, which is really

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important.
And if I said to you, what’s the

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smell of Idlewild your mind is
already racing, perhaps Is that

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the is it the Pines?
Is it the food?

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Is there a smell of Idlewild?
You see the power of smell?

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I don’t know whether you know
about this, but it’s one of

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those things which is so
powerful in triggering memories.

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In fact, there’s been some
research going on right now

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among neuroscientists about the
impact of covid which caused

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loss of smell.
And if that’s impacted on loss

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of memory for people, and those
of us who are old enough.

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And I guess that’s most of us
are old enough to know that

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there is a certain smell that
transports you into Time or in

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location to something.
A long time ago, you just catch

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that smell and it transports
you.

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I can think of the old sort of
carbolic.

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It was called, It’s A Hard
medicated soap, that we used to

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have at first grade school.
And if I, if I smell that, it

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takes me back 60 years and it
kind of transports me to a

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memory to a place and a Time.
The other thing about smells is

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that smells tend to cling to,
you don’t know, some of you may

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be in lines of work.
Where when you get home, your

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husband, or wife says, before
you step through that door, go

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and shower, go and get changed
our daughter.

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When she was a teenager worked
in in a, well, I call it fast

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food.
If I say a fish and chip shop,

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you probably don’t know what I’m
talking about.

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But, Fish and chips.
Okay, so it was a fast food

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store, a lot of frying going on
and when I daughter Naomi came

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home, we would just shout out to
a don’t come in, she reads the

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fish and the grease and of the
oil, and the frying pans and it

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just stuck to her.
Now, I’m saying these things

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because I think there is
something about Idlewild which

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is really important about the
smell of Idlewild.

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Because I the world is a place I
guess where you make memories

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and you take them with you.
I guess Idyllwild is a place

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where you would like to think
that things stick to you.

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So that when you go somewhere,
People know where you’ve been.

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And I wonder if this idea is
partly behind what we read about

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smell and Aroma in Scripture,
There’s a lot when you start to

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look and I just want to take us
to two or three passages to

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bring this point home, so that,
hopefully, you can really take

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away something practical because
you and I between us are going

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to create the odor.
Idlewild To take away.

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The first time we read about it,
can you go with me to Genesis

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and that chapter 8, We find in
verse 20, that Noah built an

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altar to the Lord and took of
every clean animal, and every

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clean bird, and offered burnt
offerings to on the Altar.

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And the Lord was 21 smelled.
A soothing aroma And the Lord

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said in his heart, I will never
again, curse the ground for

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man’s sake.
Although the imaginations of a

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man’s heart is evil from his
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Nor will I, again, destroy every
living thing as I have done.

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Now, when we talk about the
power of smell, did God change

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his mind because he could smell
a burnt offering.

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Kind of disgust.
Or was it that what God was

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responding to was the action of
a faithful man?

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And it was so powerful that when
this offering was made on the

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ultra and the aroma lifted up to
the heavens, The God said, the

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smell that I can smell.
Is a smell that indicates, there

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is a man who cares and a man who
with wanting to commit himself

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to me and such is his
faithfulness.

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Then I’m not going to destroy.
Now that’s powerful is that

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that’s powerful, but God didn’t
need the smell.

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God didn’t need the animal.
He needed the commitment, he

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needed the action, he needed the
dedication.

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That Noah was showing.
So, of course, when we, then

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move through Exodus and
Leviticus and numbers, We find

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about 40 times.
The phrase of a sweet-smelling

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savour rising up to the Lord and
that’s a lot, isn’t it?

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It’s embodied into the law that
to the children of Israel to

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indicate their dedication.
Their love for the heavenly

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father.
They would offer incense, they

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would offer sacrifice and it
would rise to the Lord not that

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the Lord needed the smell.
But that’s a rumor was an

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indication that they were people
here who were following my

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commands, who listened and loves
me and who acted in faith.

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We also know as we’ve read in
our Jeremiah reading. that there

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came a time when the Lord
wouldn’t accept those offerings,

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he didn’t want them.
In fact, if you look with me, if

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you go to Leviticus, let’s turn
to Leviticus.

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Actually no let’s go.
Yeah let’s go to Exodus re

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Exodus.
Let’s go to Exodus chapter 30 We

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find that the children of Israel
were given Specific Instructions

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when they were to create an
aroma to the Lord and indeed,

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the altar of incense was
devised, it was designed by God

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and it was built by man.
And they were to carry out

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precisely the instructions that
God had given.

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And we read in in Exodus 30 that
in the opening verse, you’ll

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make an altar to burn incense on
it.

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You’ll make it of acacia wood
and so goes the description

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verse 7.
Aaron shall burn on its sweet

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incense every morning when he
tends the lamps and he shall

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burn incense on it and when air
and light the lamps at Twilight

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he shall burn incense on it.
It’s a Perpetual incense before

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the Lord throughout your
Generations, you shall offer.

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Not any strange incense, or a
burnt offering or a grain

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offering nor shall you pour a
drink offering?

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On it.
The Lord was very precise and we

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know that there were indeed
incidents.

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Where there were individuals who
offered strange incense, they

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thought they could concoct their
own recipe of how you approach

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the Lord.
We think we know what the Lord

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wants to smell.
Own the stories of Nader and a

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bike.
You the story of Cora are

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incidents where men thought they
could change what God wanted,

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and God destroyed them for their
actions and for their

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Disobedience, it’s interesting
that when you read on in the

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chapter, the precise details of
how these things are to be made

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and look what it says.
As you get down to verse 31, you

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shall speak to the children of
Israel saying.

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This shall be a holy anointing
oil to me.

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Throughout your Generations.
It shall not be poured on man’s

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flesh.
Nor shall you met any other like

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it?
According to its composition.

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Its holy and it should be holy
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Whoever compounds any like it or
however, put any of it on an

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outsider shall be cut off from
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So it’s a, it’s a component
parts that come together and God

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says, I want you to bring these
component parts and I want you

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to bring them before me on as a
Perpetual offering.

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I want you to live in a way that
I can smell this smell that you

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care and you love me and you
obey my words, but they didn’t.

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So I was taken to look to
Leviticus too soon.

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Was nine his Leviticus that’s
just turn Leviticus 26.

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Because the warning was if you
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Leviticus 26, verse 14.
If you do not obey me and don’t

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observe my Commandments, you
despise my statutes or if your

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soul of bores, my judgment.
So you don’t perform my

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Commandments but break my
Covenant.

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Here’s what I’ll do.
And the Lord lists the various

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things, which he will do in
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And then we come down to verse
30.

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I’ll destroy your high places,
cut down, your incense altars

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and cast your carcasses on the
lifeless forms of your Idols

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that my soul will have bore you
and I will lay your city’s waste

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and bring your sanctuaries a
desolation.

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And I will not smell.
The fragrance of your sweet

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Aromas.
It’s just dog, isn’t it?

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And it’s to do with obedience
and disobedience is not because

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the Lord needs to smell that
smell, because he loves the

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smell.
He needs to smell that says you

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love me and obey me.
You’ve listened to me and you

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carry out those things which I
want and maybe just like David

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in the psalm says my prayers are
going to rise up like incense to

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you because it’s about my
relationship with you.

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I love you and I want to
dedicate myself to you.

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So it’s easy, isn’t it?
We’ve got to make sure that we

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are the aroma that the Lord
wants to smell.

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Because we to are, are a
sacrifice on me.

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That’s what it says.
Let’s just look at Romans 12.

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You know, the verse is, we’re
going to look at perhaps Romans

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12 the opening verses.
I beseech you, therefore

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Brothers by the mercies of God,
that you present, your bodies, a

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Living Sacrifice, holy
acceptable, to God, which is

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your reasonable service.
So, here we are.

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We’re a Living, Sacrifice, you
present yourself, your bodies,

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your whole self.
To God.

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That’s what we’re called to do
as a sacrifice. and when you

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make a sacrifice, just like,
Noah, just like the faithful

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children of Israel, the sweet
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Father, and that’s what we’re
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If you just turn on a few pages,
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Corinthians second letter to the
Corinthians, I was struck by

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this verse Depending, which
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I’m reading from the new King
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When I read this, in the new
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thought this is really neat.
I thought the Apostle Paul knew

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all about diffusers.
How do you do that?

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Two thousand years ago is what
it says.

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The verse for verse 12,
furthermore, when I came to

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troas to preach Christ’s gospel
and the door was open to me by

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the Lord by had no rest in my
spirit because I didn’t find

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Titus, my brother, but taking
leave of them.

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I departed from Macedonia.
So he’s talking about the

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challenges in his preaching
work.

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Now, thanks be to God who always
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and through us.
Diffuses the fragrance of his

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knowledge in every place for we
are to God the fragrance of

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Christ.
Now, when I read this the first

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time now I know that some of you
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I can confirm that our host
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appropriated from her home.
But the idea behind a diffuser

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is just so simple.
You put the appropriate oil

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inside and you put your sticks
inside and the sticks, absorb

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the oil.
When it’s absorbed the oil you

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can turn them over.
You can put them back in and

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that Aroma is now diffused
around the house.

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Now, I know I was told that
these these steaks, haven’t had

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the company of oil for quite a
while.

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But I can still smell a little
on them.

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I wonder whether you and I are
sometimes like these dry sticks.

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You see if we are here to absorb
Christ.

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And diffuse it about the house.
The Ecclesia.

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Or maybe for this week, the
Ecclesia in the mountain.

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We can diffuse Christ.
What’s what it says, isn’t it

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through us?
He diffuses the fragrance of his

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knowledge in every place for we
are to God, the fragrance of

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Christ.
We have the smell of Christ

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because Christ smell clings to
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Just, as we said about the
workplace smell that clings.

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Well, if we’re about the Lord’s
work, it clings to us.

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And that’s why I said about the
smell of Idlewild.

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When we go back, will we have
absorbed enough of Christ, to

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diffuse it in our neighborhood,
among our families, among our

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friends, among Eric loses.
And those that we’ve remembered

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who can’t be with us for this
week, what an opportunity we

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have and what a responsibility
we have of being the diffusers.

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This fragrance of Christ.
You know sometimes in our

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language we we confirm or convey
that the olfactory system in our

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heads you know the smell
processed, the smelling sense is

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particularly important to us.
People sometimes talk about the

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sweet smell of success.
I Can Smell Trouble.

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This smells fishy to me.
Yeah.

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Well, you might also notice this
week.

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I don’t know as the week goes
on.

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And the clothes need more
washing.

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And the cologne is not coming
out as often as it should.

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But sometimes, you know, we
might be Sat by someone or walk

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by someone and you.
Sometimes catch an ice melt.

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Are you what are you wearing
today?

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Well, what are you wearing,
brother or sister, and what am I

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wearing?
And I am wearing Christ to catch

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the smell of Christ.
About me.

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Do we catch the smell of Christ
about each other?

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Do we catch it as it were in
this room and across Idlewild?

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when we see someone, Acting in
that loving Christ.

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Like faithful dedicated.
Gentle kind way.

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And we you just cast this as a
christ-like way of doing things.

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We’ve got to maybe take the time
because if there are wearing a

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really expensive cologne, we
might go well that smells good.

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What is it?
well, if we catch the smell, One

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of our brothers or sisters or
young people who are acting in

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that christ-like way, and
they’re showing and diffusing

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the fragrance of the knowledge
of price then, just let them

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know.
You know, that smells good.

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I can I can sense that
christ-like behavior.

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Let’s encourage each other when
we see these things so that

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indeed they may continue.
So when we break bread and drink

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wine, where does this fit in?
We’ll just turn with me.

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If you will to Ephesians
Ephesians 5.

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Therefore be imitators of God as
dear children.

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That’s what we want to do this
week.

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Be imitators of God.
And walk in love.

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That’s what we want to do this
week.

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Because that’s how we’re going
to create the smell of Idlewild.

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That’s how we’re going to
bottle.

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Idlewild.
But there’s someone has already

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done this for us.
As Christ also has loved us and

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given himself for us.
An offering and a sacrifice to

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God, for a sweet-smelling
savour.

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You see the offering has been
made.

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But we can let this Aroma cling
to us and shape us in our

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thoughts, in our actions and
continue to transform us into

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the people who we want to be.
As we share the Bread and Wine.

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And we reflect on that
challenge.

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To be more like him to be
imitators and to walk in love as

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children.
May our prayer be that all that

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we do.
All that, we say all that.

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We think?
All that we sing.

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All that we do.
And pray.

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Be as a sweet-smelling savour.
That rises up to the father.

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Not because he needs that smell.
It’s because he needs what

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motivates people who create it.
people who love people who walk

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with him, and with his son, may
God bless us in our week

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together.
Maybe bottle, Idlewild That

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Others May know that we have
been with him and they’ll know

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because we love each other.
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